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Title: Now Dig This: The Unspeakable Writings of Terry Southern, 1950-1995 by Nile Southern, Josh Alan Friedman ISBN: 0-8021-3894-2 Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: May, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (3 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: He's Too Hip, Baby!
Comment: It's hard to imagine today, but there once was a time when the simple written word could send shudders of fear and loathing down the spines of mainstream America. And no one gave Mr and Mrs Front Porch USA the shakes more than Terry Southern. His novel "Candy" was banned and branded as pornography before it even reached our shores; his take on the military in "Doc Strangelove" earned him the label "pinko." But, like all great satirists (which he certainly was) know, "telling it like it is" often times means "taking your lumps like a man." And Terry took plenty of lumps, and humps, but never let his trials and tribs get in the way of "making it hot" for people. Although the mighty lions of 60's pop culture are now - alas! - all nearly gone, this volume of previously unseen TS works serves as an excellent reminder of a time when humor meant more than just being funny, and words alone had the power to give people the coniptions. And as "Now Dig This!" reminds us, while Southern took on all comers and suffered no fool gladly, he was a gentle giant who did so whilst nudging us playfully in the ribs - not poking us in the eye. "Now Dig This!" is a great addition to any modern humor library, and a worthy addition to the Southern canon. Bravo.
Rating: 5
Summary: the long awaited sequel to Red Dirt Marijuana
Comment: In these heartless consumerist times, irony has become debased. Thus the arrival of this anthology of previously uncollected and unpublished work by Terry Southern is not only a delightful surprise, but profoundly neccesary. Just as his 1967 anthology, Red Dirt Marijuana, proved that Southern was not just the great black humorist of the post-WWII era, but a great short story writer and essayist, so does Now Dig This affirm that status. No one has ever managed to quite duplicate Southern's mastery of so many forms: the letter as put-on, gonzo journalism, literary criticism, screenwriting and short fiction. Southern fans will be delighted at the inclusion of "Heavy Put-Away", a superb essay on Kurt Weill, and reminscences of Stanley Kubrick and Frank O'Hara. For first time readers, I have only envy. Now Dig This will be your all expenses paid ticket to a world of darkness and laughter. To paraphrase Ringo Starr, who acted in adaptations of two Southern novels, Candy and The Magic Christian, Buy a Terry Southern book today. Now Dig This is a very, very good place to start your spending spree.
Rating: 5
Summary: The long awaited sequel to Red Dirt Marijuana
Comment: Hard core Terry Southern fans and first time readers alike will find much to enjoy in Now Dig This. This anthology is a wonderful distillation of uncollected and unpublished work spanning the buttoned down cool of the fifties to the post-Reagan and Bush nineties. Now Dig This offers readers a chance to rediscover Terry Southern in his many guises: as a great short story writer, master of the zany epistle, screenwriter par excellence, raconteur (his memories of working on Dr. Strangelove and staging pranks with Frank O'Hara are worth the cover price alone), critic, journalist (doing Gonzo before everyone else), and all around grand guy. For those who have become numbed out by the coopted irony of our consumerist present, it is refreshing and inspiring to back to the source. To paraphase Ringo Starr, buy a Terry Southern book today.
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Title: Red-Dirt Marijuana and Other Tastes by Terry Southern, George Plimpton ISBN: 0806511672 Publisher: Citadel Trade Pub. Date: January, 1990 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: The Magic Christian by Terry Southern ISBN: 0802134653 Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: July, 1996 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: A Grand Guy: The Art and Life of Terry Southern by Lee Hill ISBN: 0380977869 Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: 19 February, 2001 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
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Title: Blue Movie by Terry Southern ISBN: 0802134661 Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: July, 1996 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Flash and Filigree: A Novel by Terry Southern ISBN: 0802134300 Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: March, 1996 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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